Emotional regulation and body dissatisfaction: the mediating role of anger in young adult women
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Momeñe J, Estévez A, Herrero M, Griffiths MD, Olave L and Iruarrizaga I. Emotional regulation and body dissatisfaction: the mediating role of anger in young adult women. Front. Psychiatry. 2023 14:1221513. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1221513
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Introduction: Emotion regulation difficulties have an important role in the presence of negative self-image. These problems in the self-regulation of emotion could lead to negative emotional processes (such as anger) that can lead to body dissatisfaction. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine emotion regulation difficulties than can negatively impact self-image and to understand if anger acts as mediator in the relationship between emotion regulation and body dissatisfaction. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out comprising 565 young adult women aged 18–30 years. The participants were administered the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory 2 (STAXI-2), and the Body Dissatisfaction dimension of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2). The proposed hypotheses were tested by path analysis in MPlus 8.0. Results: The results indicated that anger had a positive significant effect on body dissatisfaction as well as the non-acceptance of emotional responses, the lack of emotional awareness, and the lack of emotional clarity. Of all the dimensions of emotional regulation difficulties, impulse control difficulty was the dimension which had a positive significant indirect effect on body dissatisfaction explained by increased anger. Discussion: The present study suggests the importance of emotion regulation in the prevention of body dissatisfaction. Impulse control difficulty may be the key emotion regulation emotion in explaining the increments of anger that lead to body dissatisfaction. Among young adults, the promotion of positive body image can be promoted by helping this population to self-regulate their anger impulses.
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Artículo derivado de la obtención de datos para la realización de la Tesis Doctoral de Leticia Olave Porrúa titulada "Adicción al ejercicio físico y dismorfia muscular y complicaciones clínicas", defendida en el año 2022 con la calificación de Sobresaliente Cum Laude y dirigida por Itziar Iruarrizaga. Se recogieron, y se siguen recogiendo cada año, datos de una muy amplia cantidad de variables.